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Show j MILK MONOPOLY TALK. Milk is ore of the most important farm products, and in many communities communi-ties it represents the backbone of the farm income. Therefore, farmers are zealous in safeguarding their position posi-tion in this important industry. j Recently it was charged in congressional congres-sional hearings that the distribution of milk has been monopolized by a I few large companies. Farmers should J investigate for themselves the truth of this charge. If true, they should unite to fight the evil; if not true, it should not be allowed to becloud their minds. Most land-owning farmers consider themselves as independent business 1 men, free to buy and sell wherever they please. They can consume their milk themselves, or sell it to dairy cooperatives or to the commercial distributing organization, being free to find the best available market. Those who desire may become milk distributers themselves, and many fanners have done so. Because the business of distributing distribut-ing milk is open to any farmer or i business man who might care to enter it, keen competition is inevitable. In every community there are a half-dozen half-dozen or more competing distributors, large and small, all subject to the test of efficiency. Only those distributors distri-butors will grow large who are able to pay fair prices to the farmer, while keeping them reasonaple to the consumer through economy of operation. |